Hear individuals describe how they manage their own mental health while dealing with work issues such as high demands or conflict.
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[00:00:00.00] Text, Working through it. Constantin Nastic, Peer Specialist.
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[00:00:00.51] As cliche as it all is it really makes a huge difference on nutrition, sleeping well, exercise, finding breaks throughout the day. Instead of taking a whole hour for lunch. OK well you know what maybe take four or five breaks throughout the day.
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[00:00:22.30] Bonnie Pedota, Peer Support Specialist.
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[00:00:22.65] I'm going to try to have social time with my coworkers because I know that can be effective for me. I'm going to use-- If stuff gets really stressful I'll use those cognitive behavioral therapy strategies. If I need if I feel like I'm really tense then I'm really going to go into my benefit package at work I'm going to go for massage therapy or chiropractic care or I might. I recently started to access the counseling that's available through my workplace so I'm making sure once a month that I'm getting in with a counselor just to talk about what's going on for me. So it's really about continuing to broaden the toolkit and then also knowing what do I need to draw on here given whatever stressors going on for me.
[00:01:05.04] Sometimes if I feel I'm off I'll get up go for a walk and come back
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[00:01:09.44] Hazel Gabriel, Underwriter.
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[00:01:10.29] but basically that's what it is just to regroup and start all over again.
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[00:01:14.35] Donna Hardaker, Management Consultant.
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[00:01:14.67] I use lots of different modalities to deal with them. So I use cognitive behavioral therapy, I've done self hypnosis, a lot of deep breathing and sort of self-consciousness, being in nature, things like that can be very helpful. But this is a pervasive constant experience I have. And rather than thinking I'm a failure because I still have them instead I just accept that this might be the way I always have an experience inside my head and it doesn't mean I'm a bad person or that I'm weak or that I'm a failure instead it's just part of my existence.
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[00:01:51.63] Melonie Long, Child and Youth Counselor.
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[00:01:52.02] If I feel that I have reacted inappropriately or a little extreme and I can tell that, that person now is sort of standing off. I will ask them if I can buy them a coffee or go to lunch with them and I will say, because I'd like to talk. And then when I get alone with them, I say, I think I owe you an apology. I'm struggling with depression and anxiety right now, and I'm not very happy about the way I responded, and I'm hoping that we can get back to where we were before because I really value your relationship.
[00:02:33.04] So if I know that certain work is going to come my way, I will attempt to supply information to the person who's going to be giving it to me about what would work best for me in that regard. Do I have any choices inside of it?
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[00:02:45.22] Hardaker.
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[00:02:46.14] So I do a lot of managing up with any supervisor that I have. And I've become adept at those skills because I've used them so much over time because I know that if I just accept the way workplace systems impact me I will fail.
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[00:03:01.92] Nyk Morrigan, Mental Health Coach.
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[00:03:02.16] When things are challenging for me in my life I have to make sure that I'm looking at where am I unhelpful thinking patterns are looking at where my fears are, am I avoiding certain things. And if I'm avoiding them why am I avoiding them so asking those questions to myself as well and making sure that I keep myself at do a lot of self care to make sure that I'm taking care of myself.
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[00:03:23.55] Rosie Pardhan, Renewal Analyst.
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[00:03:23.82] You have to open up it's like opening a window for the fresh air if you close it it's how are you going to suffocate inside. So if you open up and feel the fresh air that's to the right support.
